The Mexican national team He was unable to draw many conclusions against a complicated Canadian team that did not seek to contribute much either. on the field of AT&T Stadium Dallas and ultimately resulted in a lackluster 0-0 draw in the second game of Javier Aguirre’s third trial.
Unlike Saturday’s duel, in which Mexico opened with a 3-0 victory over New Zealand with goals from Orbelín Pineda, César Huerta and Luis Romo, now Mexico had many problems functioning on the field due to the changes it had in its lineup with the absences of Raúl Rangel, Israel Reyes, Jesús Gallardo, César Montes, Luis Chávez and Julián Quiñones.
The match attracted a modest attendance for a Mexican national team match, confirming the discontent of the Mexican fans. The official attendance figure was 32,623, although it appeared to be lower.
Luis Malagon He ended up becoming the hero of the Mexican team in a great save in the first half that prevented the Canadians from taking control of the action without having offered much effort or football ideas.
Even the Canadian coach, Jesse March also had the luxury of letting go of some players who beat the United States on Saturday, such as goalkeeper Maxime Crépeau and forward Jacob Shaffelburg, who were factors in the victory against the Stars and Stripes.
Many people will say that Santiago Giménez failed again and who accumulated almost 600 minutes without scoring a goal with the Mexican national team, but except for the one-on-one in the second half with goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair, in the long run he had to win most of the battles individually and even put in some actions that could not be crystallized by his teammates.
In itself, the actions were very choppy, with Mexico trying to equalize the technical inequality in favor of the Canadiansmore with the heart and the knife between the teeth, than with real actions that could contribute football ideas.
But the serious thing was not that, but that Mexico seemed uncoordinated.betting on the long ball to move the ball, jumping the lines, because when they changed to touching the ball and trying to get Luis Romo to put Orbelín Pineda, Roberto Alvarado and César Huerta into play, they seemed to work better, but everything was just flashes in the first half.
For the second half the tone of the actions was the same, with a Mexican team with few ideas and a Canada falling back to play on the counterattack, but nothing changed even with the entry of Henry Martín, Carlos Rodríguez, Diego Lainez and Alan Mozo, simply because there was no connection of plays and even the best action to get the goal was more of a rebound than something set up.
Thus, Johan Vázquez had the chance to beat St. Clair in the 84th minutebut the Canadian goalkeeper made a good save from the corner and everything ended in a bitter 0-0 draw, where now it will be necessary or urgent for Mexico to regroup to face the next FIFA date in October, which includes a game against Valencia of Spain on October 12 at the Cuauhtémoc Stadium in Puebla.
And on October 15th at the Akron stadium in Guadalajara, the northern classic against the United States will take place. in the second game for Argentine coach Mauricio Pochettino and the fourth for Javier Aguirre with the Mexican national team.
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